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AUXILIARY ENDOWMENTS 93
dollars was established by Dean Sage in 1 8 7 2 .
Clergymen of various
denominations conduct services in the chapel on Sundays throughout
the university year.
The Preachers on the Dean Sage Foundation in 1924-25:
Summer Session, 1924: The Rev. John A. Macintosh, D.D., McCormick
Theological Seminary, Chicago; the Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, D.D., Cambridge,
Mass.; the Rev. Arthur W. Beavan, D.D., Lake Avenue Baptist Church, Roch
ester; the Rev. H. P. Dewey, D.D., Plymouth Church, Minneapolis; the Rev.
Edwin H. Hughes, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Boston.
First Term: Dr. Robert E. Speer, Secretary
of the Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions; the Rev. Charles F. Wishart, D.D., President of the College
of Wooster, Ohio; the Rev. Clarence A. Barbour, D.D., President of Rochester
Theological Seminary; the Rev. William L. Sullivan, D.D., Mission Preacher to
the Unitarian Churches in the United States and Canada; the Rev. Andrew
Mutch, D.D., Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church; the Rev. A. Ray Petty, Judson
Memorial Baptist Church, New York; the Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, D.D.,
Center Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn.; Dr. John R. Mott, Chairman
of the World's Student Christian Federation; the Rev. Hugh Black, D.D., Union
Theological Seminary, New York; Dr. Sherwood Eddy, Secretary of the Inter
national Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association; the Rev.Robert P.
Wilder, General Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Mis
sions; the Rev. Lynn Harold Hough, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Central Methodist
Episcopal Church, Detroit; the Rev. Carl H. Elmore, the Presbyterian Church,
Englewood, N. J.; the Rev. Bernard C Clausen, D.D., First Baptist Church of
Syracuse; Dr. Shailer Mathews, Dean of the Divinity School, University of
Chicago; the Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers, D.D., First Unitarian Church,
Cambridge, Mass.
Second Term: The Rev. Charles R. Brown, D.D., Dean of the Divinity School,
Yale University; The Rev. John A. Macintosh, D.D., McCormick Theological
Seminary, Chicago; the Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Park
Avenue Baptist Church, New York; the Rev. Adna W. Leonard, D.D., Bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Buffalo; the Right Rev. Philip Cook, D.D.,
Bishop of Delaware; the Rev. Maxwell Savage, First Unitarian Church, Worces
ter, Mass.; the Rev. C. Wallace Petty, First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh; the
Right Rev. G. Ashton Oldham, Bishop Coadjutor of Albany; the Rev. James Gor
don Gilkey, South Congregational Church, Springfield, Mass.; Dr. Rufus M.
Jones, Professor of Philosophy in Haverford College; the Rev. Hugh Black,
D.D., Litt.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York; the Rev. Avery Albert
Shaw, D.D., Emmanuel Baptist Church, Brooklyn; the Right Rev. Ethelbert
Talbot, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Bethlehem, Pa.; the Rev. A. W. Beaven, D.D.,
Lake Avenue Baptist Church, Rochester; the Rev. Boyd Edwards, D.D., Head
master of The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; the Rev. Willard L. Sperry, M.A.,
D.D., Dean of the Theological School in Harvard University.
BARNES HALL: THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
The Cornell University Christian Association was founded in 1869
as a voluntary organization of professors and students for their own
religious culture and the promotion of Christian living in the Univer
sity. For years many it held its meetings in White Hall. In 1886
it undertook to raise fufnds for a building of its own and had obtained
about ten thousand dollars from students, members of the Faculty,
and other persons, when Alfred S. Barnes completed the fund with a
gift of forty-five thousand dollars. The Board of Trustees gave the
association the use of a plot of ground south of Sage Chapel, and
Barnes Hall was completed in 1888. The men's and women's Chris
tian Associations have permanent secretaries, they maintain reading